tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004277864446495342024-03-04T23:02:52.947-08:00Quilting the Green StarPatchwork, quilting, gardens, recipes, quilt making and designingSue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.comBlogger211125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-29150798391647404492021-07-12T10:02:00.000-07:002021-07-12T10:02:51.565-07:00Putting things in bags<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> I have been making lots of bags recently, small, and medium sizes mostly and at last, after much practice I can put in a zip straight! I have learned to put tabs on the zip ends and the best bit is finding the right beads to tie on the zipper pull. That’s my favourite bit! Here are some made from small pieces of fabrics I have loved….. First of all I liked the idea of a gardener’ rescue bag, it could be filled with seeds, hand cream, some new gloves, all things I would use myself.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2F7r2wmIcDXVTyraTfGJHbxKWYoCXT4c42Zgy_r0uC9etO_K4a9DgQiH2gCcJrX5e8iSQEHfHFKVmT6INz5TcmrxXC5wChoftNJfiOnufa91YG2OwG4NBjqtBdn2G32-SXJ161RT-_zTQ/s2048/D8DC9EC3-23AB-4B19-8FC5-16474D92230D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1702" data-original-width="2048" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2F7r2wmIcDXVTyraTfGJHbxKWYoCXT4c42Zgy_r0uC9etO_K4a9DgQiH2gCcJrX5e8iSQEHfHFKVmT6INz5TcmrxXC5wChoftNJfiOnufa91YG2OwG4NBjqtBdn2G32-SXJ161RT-_zTQ/w444-h369/D8DC9EC3-23AB-4B19-8FC5-16474D92230D.jpeg" width="444" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Then I thought about sponge bags or do you call them wash bags? I used a white shower curtain fabric to line the insides to make them waterproof. If you try this use quilters clips rather than pins to hold edges together so you don’t make holes in the plastic inside fabric.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisOmM0UE0URVgL51JpEjH_bHhVSh3nRom2_RgeSGAl4GEASCmAO35ZeoljQ7h8u1Jtj_hhcx5-bDo1f07avmlWsxX1YRPGSnRkx4CIZApOoLT9TssCD9gOesrOlW8HDduQNPT6icTNJLSQ/s2048/8E685309-C5A5-4810-A3C0-C0B288D4BF0B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1632" data-original-width="2048" height="427" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisOmM0UE0URVgL51JpEjH_bHhVSh3nRom2_RgeSGAl4GEASCmAO35ZeoljQ7h8u1Jtj_hhcx5-bDo1f07avmlWsxX1YRPGSnRkx4CIZApOoLT9TssCD9gOesrOlW8HDduQNPT6icTNJLSQ/w536-h427/8E685309-C5A5-4810-A3C0-C0B288D4BF0B.jpeg" width="536" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are some great how to do it videos on YouTube done by some very kind and generous stitchers who show their methods. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLPSf2ZqCdPOpjmNYOZk5D-EVSB32WDOz3mVrBQ766Y33TSiQlwxW50xesk32xACA4bUMELoEr0YpKAQuUjEDmzRqseHcuwnSG5f_qrFjzCz4tvC6nSBtdAULXwM4eAuOKeRZYCAujTbPV/s2048/78764828-0A07-4E28-94D8-C9E5387DCDCA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1629" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLPSf2ZqCdPOpjmNYOZk5D-EVSB32WDOz3mVrBQ766Y33TSiQlwxW50xesk32xACA4bUMELoEr0YpKAQuUjEDmzRqseHcuwnSG5f_qrFjzCz4tvC6nSBtdAULXwM4eAuOKeRZYCAujTbPV/w386-h484/78764828-0A07-4E28-94D8-C9E5387DCDCA.jpeg" width="386" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And I must admit I have enjoyed photographing each bag with things from home to show their size and possible use.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeGmIJ9pOk7jZ4bXDC6VxOU9LoWVLBUQ3QDMY5ZZCAHRWPD0U7vaOSdB1UNOucOvYFCr-8bxohn-cq6MOS1eQQOse87gGiUXaeyTMCc-gP63_pK1Gd2YMAp2PUyM2e7OFHOwujMmSQAiCy/s2048/A229E9E4-E260-443B-8238-8E75D185BF62.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1648" data-original-width="2048" height="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeGmIJ9pOk7jZ4bXDC6VxOU9LoWVLBUQ3QDMY5ZZCAHRWPD0U7vaOSdB1UNOucOvYFCr-8bxohn-cq6MOS1eQQOse87gGiUXaeyTMCc-gP63_pK1Gd2YMAp2PUyM2e7OFHOwujMmSQAiCy/w454-h367/A229E9E4-E260-443B-8238-8E75D185BF62.jpeg" width="454" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW7O0MTIy9NMtEK-Hu_aUWjSD-AAfskH9jXDPqOJsi7WxbnJgmzkgSapu-7rq5bsZqleIrV1NXtzc5B0W9Obf1LzrOg2bqlOxHXlV4LtZPWoywa2NIVkBwJIww7NFvaUtOyHzncns2hNbe/s2048/FC89C5CF-42CB-4EC2-9A0F-F0D986B9240D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1560" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW7O0MTIy9NMtEK-Hu_aUWjSD-AAfskH9jXDPqOJsi7WxbnJgmzkgSapu-7rq5bsZqleIrV1NXtzc5B0W9Obf1LzrOg2bqlOxHXlV4LtZPWoywa2NIVkBwJIww7NFvaUtOyHzncns2hNbe/s320/FC89C5CF-42CB-4EC2-9A0F-F0D986B9240D.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Look at these cute Dolly Mixture beads, just perfect for the decoration. Dolly Mixtures are children's’ sweets in the UK, I don’t know if you have them in other countries.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here’s the last one:</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYul1_XxZYX67fvZv1nLy3IEw-fs8DBAQoeDqPnLhnw47jny5pWqSVvss777DUD4sIZIcAMs-xogdSFbu5XOBgap11L3qiEceKwIiLzmcjJfiGHdrBo4G1IiAVmaPRP2asPZTF_h4vkrRy/s2048/2C65ADA5-14B1-4A55-B6B2-35615E48832D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1958" data-original-width="2048" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYul1_XxZYX67fvZv1nLy3IEw-fs8DBAQoeDqPnLhnw47jny5pWqSVvss777DUD4sIZIcAMs-xogdSFbu5XOBgap11L3qiEceKwIiLzmcjJfiGHdrBo4G1IiAVmaPRP2asPZTF_h4vkrRy/w455-h435/2C65ADA5-14B1-4A55-B6B2-35615E48832D.jpeg" width="455" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1mdlPAM2h5FMCOllJdm9beiXzx7J4_0gnbLqLFmjeomkC0JHlBIN1ExQwPlRudPS1ywqFK-cE-a801mA9XHNzkfyGlFNTgGIrBYZe9T0sgEbg0f4Nn7Qgy9siPQEOeLhXvzJl_h-q6A92/s2048/95B4F02C-86C8-494E-80D4-DF6E18C233C3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1884" data-original-width="2048" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1mdlPAM2h5FMCOllJdm9beiXzx7J4_0gnbLqLFmjeomkC0JHlBIN1ExQwPlRudPS1ywqFK-cE-a801mA9XHNzkfyGlFNTgGIrBYZe9T0sgEbg0f4Nn7Qgy9siPQEOeLhXvzJl_h-q6A92/w457-h420/95B4F02C-86C8-494E-80D4-DF6E18C233C3.jpeg" width="457" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXBeujhx7BNvGaXcugcOGkO-gzdGlzctqGmI_gFLzlUP_eilfJVNmPOszKMyvW3d9O-H942BOdcTGzhJm_4Gu5b0nDrC1ogDA2l2zs6icBAFQwNRwDAH18D4IVkF7SrYxys6aY85Ocmui/s2048/2849685A-4199-4F96-948F-0163B78D32DB.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXBeujhx7BNvGaXcugcOGkO-gzdGlzctqGmI_gFLzlUP_eilfJVNmPOszKMyvW3d9O-H942BOdcTGzhJm_4Gu5b0nDrC1ogDA2l2zs6icBAFQwNRwDAH18D4IVkF7SrYxys6aY85Ocmui/s320/2849685A-4199-4F96-948F-0163B78D32DB.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I think this one is my favourite, I made it thinking about going to the beach, now we just need better weather …..<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I hope the post looks right on your computer, hasn’t Blogger changed recently and I’m still trying to find my way around all the buttons! Maybe it doesn’t suit my tablet either!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Happy weekend everyone who reads this, it’s the football final tomorrow so we are holding our breath and crossing our fingers and toes, but good luck Italy too,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Kind regards,</span> </div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large;">Sue</span> </span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p><br /></p></div>Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-34120081353156619072021-05-12T04:34:00.000-07:002021-05-12T04:34:36.967-07:00Wet spring days in Lincolnshire<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> It’s raining again, yesterday it rained all day and tomorrow the forecast is no better! So to cheer you all up I thought I would show you our spring flowers which absolutely love the damp weather. Our garden is best in the spring and primroses, cowslips and bluebells put on their dresses of many colours and spread themselves through the grass. They seed into new places every year, sometimes combining themselves to make something I call a primslip, where a primrose meets a cowslip!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmNNGUK7hvjwOrtMthtEXCeT2zW9dbUxDRWe7FQFwUeBppGmBh9qHApJqwezvqQ6AS_Kxm2UBNTF0UrwHR8aKWDcD5mtJp-eaaJvcJdyV57Rv8kFxZDmXWxG8ZTABmwIEfpYTlaw1xfmE2/s2048/DF9F5812-007D-4ACE-BE0C-C66B29B3C1D0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1716" data-original-width="2048" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmNNGUK7hvjwOrtMthtEXCeT2zW9dbUxDRWe7FQFwUeBppGmBh9qHApJqwezvqQ6AS_Kxm2UBNTF0UrwHR8aKWDcD5mtJp-eaaJvcJdyV57Rv8kFxZDmXWxG8ZTABmwIEfpYTlaw1xfmE2/w400-h335/DF9F5812-007D-4ACE-BE0C-C66B29B3C1D0.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is my latest make, a generous sized market bag made from cotton fabrics and a foam covered wadding which makes the sides stand up very nicely. The fabric was given to me and it looks like a Kaffe Fassett print, just right for a bag as I couldn’t bear to cut the big fabric design up for a quilt.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJueej4Li1uL_o-IcOvZagXwv4yClw2-JndOcSCo2DcrECBfXqwAvIhK9QorrfqdoDyYwuspdFBnKioQQAIT4IOfs7re7QJwdTqxqQOdyN1yE2lGThc7xFNYw2O73ehX-YlbT10mwxEt6h/s2048/7B81E894-5AB8-489C-88C6-66529672284B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1656" data-original-width="2048" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJueej4Li1uL_o-IcOvZagXwv4yClw2-JndOcSCo2DcrECBfXqwAvIhK9QorrfqdoDyYwuspdFBnKioQQAIT4IOfs7re7QJwdTqxqQOdyN1yE2lGThc7xFNYw2O73ehX-YlbT10mwxEt6h/w400-h324/7B81E894-5AB8-489C-88C6-66529672284B.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So now I’m thinking picnics, sunshine, sandwiches and coffee in the park, so the bag needed a quilt and this delphinium blues one was just right for the photo. The quilt pattern is so simple, a bricks and mortar pattern which I turn to again and again, I love its simple style.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeUfoxq91sVF8lHbgwBiUV9Y7A05-gtrYO-4LctD71zyQm69ca59vZzjVz_TC92Xp3BABcdFD-0CNKZh9F5YETL7FpfyqoWY4JbH8hR_XijevdAwpg0_APfMAnhBGH995BspE6kdbD1Guv/s2048/99B34AE1-8FDA-417C-9A90-18013B9FF13B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1438" data-original-width="2048" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeUfoxq91sVF8lHbgwBiUV9Y7A05-gtrYO-4LctD71zyQm69ca59vZzjVz_TC92Xp3BABcdFD-0CNKZh9F5YETL7FpfyqoWY4JbH8hR_XijevdAwpg0_APfMAnhBGH995BspE6kdbD1Guv/w400-h281/99B34AE1-8FDA-417C-9A90-18013B9FF13B.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I can’t wait to wear a summer dress. I bought a new one by mail order recently, but am I a strange shape or are dress manufacturers measuring with the wrong tape measure? It is lovely fabric and will be fine when I have taken it up and in and put a zip in the side to give it a better fit! Should one have to do that? I bought a size 12 and it is too big. I haven’t been a size 10 since before my babies so I suppose I should just be pleased!!</span></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2QYB-xcqq5-73WTcb7Dgl3RG433qDh89AVIEVwx14XOeN62JADKhhXIPaOInjZqceeISrlHGFwG5DkI9UTlnzvKGsQ1OalGCk2Ke_Y0_F8iUH4OmViXUiOEZn3Ob1g2H1PcR2hxarjKa8/s1440/DE12E105-0C67-48DA-BD95-88EE3C32ED89.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2QYB-xcqq5-73WTcb7Dgl3RG433qDh89AVIEVwx14XOeN62JADKhhXIPaOInjZqceeISrlHGFwG5DkI9UTlnzvKGsQ1OalGCk2Ke_Y0_F8iUH4OmViXUiOEZn3Ob1g2H1PcR2hxarjKa8/w400-h400/DE12E105-0C67-48DA-BD95-88EE3C32ED89.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Kind regards,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Sue</span> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-20285752068593794592021-04-25T00:01:00.001-07:002021-04-25T00:01:49.706-07:00<p><a href="https://www.bloglovin.com/blog/11663093/?claim=4qe6ymthdns">Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a></p>Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-33212517835858530842021-04-18T06:51:00.004-07:002021-04-23T00:32:15.018-07:00Renewal<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr5WjgDTXN1d-mSFLvTCqvT3GLj2S8HhaTXyNglZt2X3gyrsAvSJ1x-JBdMGyvvv-LVWrb6xAZcistXm9Xo9iAdEcteF5Diorj60fZ5O_kUTrxqWduRZibbmHNUv6cpu6KauK48AUg3S0s/s1440/9CF57957-1E6C-4EF3-BA16-6A1D6F52E5CB.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr5WjgDTXN1d-mSFLvTCqvT3GLj2S8HhaTXyNglZt2X3gyrsAvSJ1x-JBdMGyvvv-LVWrb6xAZcistXm9Xo9iAdEcteF5Diorj60fZ5O_kUTrxqWduRZibbmHNUv6cpu6KauK48AUg3S0s/w400-h400/9CF57957-1E6C-4EF3-BA16-6A1D6F52E5CB.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Dear Readers, </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It has been such a long time since I posted on my blog and so very much has happened to us all. The last year has had huge highs and very many lows and although time at home has seemed vast, there have been few moments or indeed the heart to write cheerful blogs about about quilting.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">But here I am and in this new time I feel I can start again and I realise I have missed my blog. I post on Instagram as <a href="https://www.instagram.com/green_star_quilts/" target="_blank">Green_Star_Quilts</a> but it’s a small space and a bit frantic sometimes, and I realise I enjoy the calmer, larger atmosphere of this blog.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So here I go, thinking I will start again and I hope this brings my readers some happiness and a lifting of the hearts if you too have had a sad time during the pandemic which has touched us all.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieN0ZpKZHsZF1nwH5L2By-mUoZ7dFVjA7u_D6QNMDJvvA7cEUMUmsF3-2s0T3TV4yG8jlI0QDPaKgPPLDSTOAsqYTb0Kqsfrg_ZEPEB0Cwe7F0cnxm3ib3QodD5uOsaUHlE7781O0XZyH7/s1440/73FF00AC-3A3F-4450-B414-12A364577648.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieN0ZpKZHsZF1nwH5L2By-mUoZ7dFVjA7u_D6QNMDJvvA7cEUMUmsF3-2s0T3TV4yG8jlI0QDPaKgPPLDSTOAsqYTb0Kqsfrg_ZEPEB0Cwe7F0cnxm3ib3QodD5uOsaUHlE7781O0XZyH7/w400-h400/73FF00AC-3A3F-4450-B414-12A364577648.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So over the last year things have changed a bit and I have stopped taking commissions for quilts. My website Greenstarquilts.com has closed and I have started making individual quilts and bags to sell at my local craft collective which is called <a href="https://www.instagram.com/withlovefromlincolnshire/" target="_blank">With Love From Lincolnshire</a>. This has brought me so much pleasure, it’s lovely to part of a vibrant group of makers and means I can use fabrics from the drawers and cupboards in my sewing room as I please. I have loved coming up with new ideas and making bags and mastering the putting of zips has been quite something for me!</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuDB8ir_fcBoycPhMZN-95yopiS8_vZ86EEmpYZJfLhm32Ne_RxoOFiZOYDf35KaQEgUyicau98whhvbicsfmrCRuymHn010TKxQrsXfP8djMeUcXq6YygvqVXPxQ_AQfNs4t0hzq81t-q/s2048/0D2A5443-0CD0-4FEC-9EA5-07C3CEE0E884.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuDB8ir_fcBoycPhMZN-95yopiS8_vZ86EEmpYZJfLhm32Ne_RxoOFiZOYDf35KaQEgUyicau98whhvbicsfmrCRuymHn010TKxQrsXfP8djMeUcXq6YygvqVXPxQ_AQfNs4t0hzq81t-q/w300-h400/0D2A5443-0CD0-4FEC-9EA5-07C3CEE0E884.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRlPeRhqAMPcOq4F1mhyfyn9q-f2bp5TWOxq_ka6FdYYQ6Ez6AKpD5VKT3Xc0MSD80ALLX_OsQEh8l4IKRpOLkAw5fg2yXP9PrkVwfVSg22k-FsdfIZMghoUAZ11xBuoVs4VYnraopk_Zt/s2048/295DF731-A666-4A3A-B028-409CE13C0490.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRlPeRhqAMPcOq4F1mhyfyn9q-f2bp5TWOxq_ka6FdYYQ6Ez6AKpD5VKT3Xc0MSD80ALLX_OsQEh8l4IKRpOLkAw5fg2yXP9PrkVwfVSg22k-FsdfIZMghoUAZ11xBuoVs4VYnraopk_Zt/w300-h400/295DF731-A666-4A3A-B028-409CE13C0490.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I find that Blogger has changed a few things and I am clicking buttons but may take a few posts to get things to look right! I’m using my iPad to post and that seems to make a difference too. I’ll get it in hand soon.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">If you are reading this, then thank you, I love the idea that we are sewing in different countries all over the world and making quilts to sell, as gifts and to give comfort.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7h2uRfjQX-jHXBAOwlHCPJBKJHZH35gm_d6OhBXrPwbojA3zDOadLWPi9qhrzJLHOEJoOMlhJoAk-cRrm_M3NXUquhx5dMy2E3udeiA_VqeKL8xgYtrwVdkTq4w7AK0o8-OznaQoc7np4/s640/10C5D1E7-3EFE-4B8B-B8FE-E5A2F91DFC2F.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7h2uRfjQX-jHXBAOwlHCPJBKJHZH35gm_d6OhBXrPwbojA3zDOadLWPi9qhrzJLHOEJoOMlhJoAk-cRrm_M3NXUquhx5dMy2E3udeiA_VqeKL8xgYtrwVdkTq4w7AK0o8-OznaQoc7np4/w400-h400/10C5D1E7-3EFE-4B8B-B8FE-E5A2F91DFC2F.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Maybe you have felt like me over the last year, but also maybe there is a lifting of spirits, our hobbies mean so much to us all and have kept many of us going,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">That’s all for now,</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">Very best wishes and kind regards,</span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Sue </span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com1Bike Lane Sincil Dike and River Witham, Spa Rd, Lincoln LN5 8HN, UK53.226893 -0.520960853.06207784593056 -0.795619003125 53.391708154069434 -0.246302596875tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-32572222928780870412020-02-12T09:42:00.001-08:002020-02-12T09:42:48.267-08:00A Walk In The Park Quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well dear readers, I must say it is absolutely freezing here in Lincolnshire and still rather windy from the recent storm. It's February and our brave daffodils are bobbing about, buds nearly in flower, but the gardeners in this house are still in hibernation, despite the arrival of many seed packets in the post. I have made my first quilt of 2020 in spring colours though. It is a city scene quilt using fabrics which I think are called Walk In The Park, so that's what I have called the quilt too. Here is is.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The fabrics feature little dogs, town houses and parks and the dogs are so sweet with lots of character in the drawings. Yellow windmills dance across the quilt and give a bright focus and diagonal design. I used a pattern by <a href="http://www.cluckclucksew.com/"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Alyson at CluckCluckSew </span></a> but turned the rectangles through 90 degrees to suit the fabric design.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I spent a lot of time faffing about taking photos which is my second favourite thing about quilt making, but the winter light is tricky and its hard to get bright colours. I also spent a lot of time drinking coffee and eating the Panatone cake my lovely Italian sister-in-law brought too, but that's another story!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I just made this quilt because I loved the fabrics, so it is for sale on my website </span><div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.greenstarquilts.com/page4.htm"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Green Star Quilts</span></a> but I shall be sad to see it go from the sewing room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the quilting I tried a pale blue varigated thread 100% cotton by Robinson-Anton, and I really love the effect. I stitched in wavy lines across the rectangles and left the windmill blocks plain. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The finished size is a lage cot quilt but it would be a great sofa throw or even a small picnic rug for coffee and cake in the park.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At least although it's so cold the days are getting longer. It is 5.30pm as I write this and just dusk, not quite dark and it lifts my heart. There seem to be quite a few hardy walkers on the hill outside my window and they remind me that I should go for a walk tomorrow around the park or across the common, woolly hat and gloves at the ready.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's not to late in the month to say Happy February to you all, I hope your daffodils haven't been battered by the wind,</span></div>
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Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-30633338552648081352019-12-06T08:56:00.000-08:002019-12-06T08:56:02.915-08:00The comments<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ahhh I'm so sorry! You have all been sending me lovely comments and I didn't find them until just now! Has Blogger changed the comments system while I haven't been paying attention?? Anyway, a million apologies to you all who have so kindly been encouraging me and please don't feel ignored. Now I have found the button for the comments and will read them everytime. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> And a huge 'Thank You' to you lovely kind people!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While it was raining the other day I had a moment of tiny quilt making...... The young visitor to my dolls' house had requested a change of use.... so all the dolls were evicted and the Sylvanian animals moved in.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They needed new furnishings, quilts, cushions and some clothes....</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I used up lots of tiny scraps which were from this quilt.... don't you just love the hedgehogs...</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So now they are all comfy and in this cold weather will be in cosy hibernation until my young visitor comes again!</span><div>
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Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-45507420580094324302019-12-06T08:30:00.000-08:002019-12-06T08:30:24.666-08:00Blue Tumblers Quilt<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This was a quilt I had been thinking about for a while and at last I have had time to make it. I am so pleased with the colours, there are lots of bright modern fabrics in this design and they tumble across the quilt , it makes you feel happy and rather summery just looking at it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The backing fabric is an Aztec design and all the fabrics and wadding used are 100% cotton. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Can you see the turtle and the skiing cat? There are lots of little Russian dolls too and the odd toucan.... Here is the whole quilt:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you fancy becoming the new owner, you can see the details on the <span style="color: #073763;"><a href="http://www.greenstarquilts.com/page4.htm">Buy Now page</a></span> of my website. Just click on the link. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also I have been making a little cot quilt for Kate to give her friend. The baby is due in the middle of the month, what a great present for Christmas!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The backing fabric is a gentle soft grey colour with tiny yellow fireflies:</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I very much enjoy making these little quilts, each one is different although the theme is always the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This quilt is a modern sampler quilt, each block is unique and quilted differently. It will be for sale on my website in a few days time. Here you can see it with the quilting pins still in place...</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But the best make of the month is our new baby girl, no photos though as she doesn't need a social media presence just yet.... this is her quilt though:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As it is curtain weight material it was nice to use a light weight wadding and and very light Liberty Tala Lawn as the backing so the quilt would not be too heavy:</span><br />
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Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-24059887618923727792019-06-07T08:32:00.000-07:002019-06-07T08:32:03.684-07:00Modern quilts and modern blogging<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have been blogging for 10 years now and recently I have gone to less frequent posts, it seems there is less to say and so much more to do! But I miss it, I love taking the photos of quilts and I hope to make more time to carry on blogging, even with Instagram, Pinterest, the website and many other things to do. I don't think I have time to Twitter though! I have been making quilts though so here are some photos:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was inspired by Tula Pink's book and used a million tiny scraps to make the blocks:</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here is the whole quilt which measures 43 x 49 inches, 109 x 124 cm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is the inspiring page although I didn't use her blocks, but made up my own:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The colours are like the primulas and primroses which self seed all over the shadier parts of the garden. This is the backing fabric....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have also finished a sweet baby first size bed quilt for a little boy called Teddy which uses some of his outgrown clothes including his first football shirt.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The children in the middle are Teddy with his big brother and sister. Now I am really hoping to have time to tidy the sewing room which looks such a mess!</span></div>
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Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-51058135828381035912019-03-27T07:50:00.000-07:002019-03-27T07:50:43.010-07:00Scrap Flags and Bunting Quilt<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have been saving red, white and blue scraps for ages and truth be told I have had this quilt in bits in the to do basket for over a year. But recently I have been on a mission to tidy and clear up the sewing room, with a buy less, use more up resolution..... you know, the resolution you hope to keep but then you go to a quilt show and guess what happens......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The design started as one from a tutorial by <a href="http://filminthefridge.com/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Ashley at Film in the Fridge</span></a> but then I added some tiny flags which could be bunting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One thing I have learnt from making a white background quilt is this..... don't use white scraps unless they come from the same bolt of fabric! Reader I tried but then came a great deal of unpicking as there is white and then there is white, there is unbleached and there is ready to dye white..... There are also bits of old sheet, bits of Cona white and bits of white shirting in my white fabric drawer. And I can tell you that they are all different. And I can tell you that when you mix them in a quilt top they all look different On The Quilt Top........ ahhhhh and then there is a lot of unladylike language and hours of unpicking. Then there is a lot of recutting because you have lost the points of the flags ends..... </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But in the end it is all worthwhile and the quilt looks so fresh and jolly:</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The binding is scrap pieced too. The quilt measures 102 x 133 cm (40.5 x 53 inches)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you to Ashley for this tutorial, do visit her using the link above if you get time, her quilt photos are brilliant!</span></div>
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Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-58345579311221133182019-02-07T09:26:00.000-08:002019-02-07T09:26:00.314-08:00Purple Makes Me Happy Quilt<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For ages I have been collecting purple fabrics and scraps and tucking them away in a big basket in the sewing room. Pirjo from <a href="http://www.facebook.com/WithLovefromLincolnshire">With Love From Lincolnshire</a> makes gorgeous little girls' shift dresses and gave me lots of lovely offcuts from her dressmaking, so I had added to the basket and then it was full. Time to tackle the purple mountain. I had mostly rectangular strips so decided that would be the basis of a very happy, throw everything at it quilt. So here it is, put on your sunglasses before looking......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It has a kind of 70s look, think Mary Quant designs and there are apples, bees, butterflies, birds, flowers, so many fabrics I lost count.... A good friend had a pair of purple velvet hotpants and silver thigh high boots then and it reminds me of her dancing.... and goodness knows what comments I will get on the blog following that sentence! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The backing fabric is an aqua cotton with tiny white polka dots:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The quilting is in horizontal wavy lines and the binding is a vintage Laura Ashley cotton in lilac and white which doesn't dominate the other colours on the front. I took my portable quilt stand (husband) onto our local green space commonland for an arty photo. I thought the purple would look good against the green as they are opposites on the colour wheel. It was a bit windy so it took a while to get him set up, knees bent to hide his head, feet tucked in so they didn't show, howls of agony ignored.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The quilt measurements are 49 x 60 inches (125 x 153cm)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The fabrics are all cotton and the wadding is 80/20 Hobbs Heirloom cotton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It would make the perfect present for someone who loves purple, or as a companion on a lazy picnic, or even a sofa throw or bed topper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you would like to be the new owner of my Purple Makes Me Happy Quilt it is for sale on the buy now page of my website <a href="http://www.greenstarquilts.com/page4.htm">www.greenstarquilts.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thanks for dropping by, I hope your weekend is peaceful,</span></div>
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Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-30649460911595039532019-01-07T06:48:00.001-08:002019-02-07T08:42:14.920-08:00A life in the country quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Is it too late to wish you all A Happy New Year? The time seems to be flying by already and things are already getting busy in the sewing room here. Ellie had her baby and I made a gift for husband to deliver to her, along with a chocolate chip cake because we all know that flowers are lovely but gifts you can eat are great when you have just had a baby! Here is the quilt I made for baby Wilfred who will grow up knowing all about foxes and pheasants....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I used lots of small pieces of fabrics which I have been saving for just such a quilt with a 'throw everything at it' approach which always seems to turn out well amazingly!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The pattern is a 'bricks and mortar' one. Most the pieces were put up on the design wall to start with to get the balance right with the darks and lights. When it all got too big for my small wall, I used the floor too, a good reason to hoover the carpet of pesky threads! With all the patterns of the different fabrics, it is magical how they almost become joined up in your mind when you look at the over all quilt top and the darks and lights of the colours become much more important. I love this style of quilt but I can quite understand that it might be too much for people who like a calm life!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The quilting is a simple quarter of an inch from the seams to create a grid and little squares in the corners of each brick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have attempted to take the photos in the summer house down the garden but it is cold and a bit muddy.... how do quilt makers take such gorgeous photos of their quilts in the snow and on the beach etc without getting them dirty? It is a mystery to me and one I continue to struggle with!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another finish is The Beast..... which felt as though I was knitting a large dog at the finish! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is a jumper I have been knitting for daughter who is living in Norway, temperature -7 degrees, lots of snow, beautiful pink twilight all day and many many sledge dogs to exercise.... Again I have tried the arty photo, the jumper ended up covered in leaves and bits of twig, this doesn't seem to happen to those clever knitters who have snapped their finished jumpers on reindeer skins beside camp fires and in the snow..... what am I doing wrong?? Husband looked at he photos and commented that people would think the wood pile was really untidy..... just another thought!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I now know how the knit a yoke though and really I love the Lopi Icelandic wool which is so warm although a bit hairy and itchy so she will need a thick t shirt underneath. The knitting grows at an amazing speed too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This week I am making little new baby quilts and finishing a scrap one too. More attempts at arty photos to follow soon,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Happy New Year and thank you for visiting my blog,</span></div>
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Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-45603493144919852162018-12-01T08:23:00.000-08:002018-12-01T08:23:17.927-08:00Icelandic jumper pattern<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What is about winter evenings that draw me to knitting? When the heating goes off in the sewing room I settle in the sitting room with a log fire, chocolate, crossword and at the moment some very warm knitting. Daughter who is living in Norway has asked me to knit a jumper from a lovely Norwegian design company called <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/designers/linka-karoline-neumann"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Valley Knits</span></a>. You can find them on Raveley, the knitting pattern site. The jumpers are photographed on snow, with husky dogs and reindeer fur and they look amazing. I do hope mine will look amazing too, but I haven't got to the difficut bit yet! Yes, that is the circular yoke with traditional patterns mixed with paw prints.... I suspect there will be much undoing, some grumpiness and hopefully triumphant photos when I get it right!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here it is so far, no husky dog here to style the photo though....That may come when I finish it and post it to Norway!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The sleeves come next, then hopefully it will all join up to make the yoke stitches, I really hope it does!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-39739710582700145092018-12-01T08:05:00.000-08:002018-12-01T08:05:15.918-08:00Scrap fabric bibs<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week I have been addressing the pile of fabric scraps which I can't bear to throw away. I found a lovely pattern for bibs ages ago on the internet and sadly can't find it now, so I drew around an old bib to make my own pattern and here are my scrap fabric bibs.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The fabrics come mostly from a quilt I made which was designed for a bike ride and picnic. I loved the bikes fabric and kept even the tiny scraps afterwards. I'm so glad they have been used!</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I stitched the three layers together and then turned the bib to the outside. It was a bit of a fiddle with the wadding but cutting it really close to the stitching worked well. After turning, I quilted the whole bib in straight lines and round the edge. The fastening at the neck is a large popper as I find velco catches on soft fine hair and pulls.</span><div>
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Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-5549011134652458672018-11-12T10:00:00.001-08:002018-11-12T10:00:50.828-08:00Little elephants on the move<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week I have made a cot quilt for Sophia Rose. Such a pretty name! She is very new to the world having been born in October but is now the owner of her first quilt. I have made so many elephant cot quilts over the years and they all look different with the same over all style. This one is in pinks with pale greens and soft yellows to make it look more modern. Many years ago I was in Paris and saw a window frieze of cut out elephants in a shop display. I drew a quick sketch on the back of an envelope and with more design this has become a favourite quilt pattern. Here is Sophia's quilt....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The backing fabric is white with tiny bright pink flamingos in rows:</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This quilt measures 36 x 36 inches and has a cream coloured binding...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now I am finishing a tractor quilt which is needed for Christmas. So far I have finished the top of the quilt and here it is.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just the quilting needed to complete this one. I love these autumnal colours, the leaves of the beech tree in our garden have turned to amazing shades of gold which echo the golds in this quilt. The weather is still quite warm and bright low sunshine too, but evenings need a log fire and a cosy blanket when the central heating goes off. At the moment in the evenings I am making felt food.... pasta shapes and lots of cupcakes using lids from plasitc bottles as the base. The internet has lots of free patterns so tonight it is ravioli and an attempt at a pizza! I will show you when I have a complete meal! You should see the bananas!</span></div>
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Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-2440862917622549202018-09-23T08:18:00.001-07:002018-09-23T08:20:49.606-07:00Time for a change<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This month my website has decided to go off sick. Bits are feeling poorly and other bits seem to be having a month away.... it has gone off to bed with the duvet over it's head, will not get up in the mornings and it has no intention of being helpful when I try to fix it!! Grrr, so now I have to become a web designer, which is a slow and painful process for me..... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Once I started thinking about a new website though, I quickly got enthusiastic, thanks to my lovely son-in-law who helped me with lots of ideas. Now it is just a question of finding the photos I need for each page and there I have to confess to woefully inadequent filing, indeed, no filing system at all for digital prints.... You know what it like when you think 'One rainy day I will sit at the computer and label, sort and file all my photos so I can find them easily but right now I'd rather be quilting' ? Well that's the problem, and now my chickens are throughly home to roost with that one!! Anyway, it will be sorted eventually and then I will have a shiny new up to date site with loads of pictures and some new text.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the meantime I can still be contacted through the website contact page, and here is the link: <a href="http://www.greenstarquilts.com/page9.htm"><span style="color: #073763;">www.greenstarquilts.com/page9.htm</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Daughter is home from Norway with her Viking and has ideas for making picture hangings. They will have a Northern theme and will all be A4 size. It is such fun designing something so small and the Bond-a-Web sticky web stuff you iron on has been in full use. This is where we have got to so far.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am delighted with the Northern Lights fabric which is designed by Timeless Treasures. Next will be a sledge and a husky dog with more Northern lights. It is a lovely project and it will use all sorts of scraps up. It is also something we can do at a distance as she will be back in north Norway for the winter, training sled dogs. Where she is working is so so beautiful, my fabric pictures can't do it justice. You can see it <a href="http://arcticadventuretours.no/"><span style="color: #073763;">here</span></a> and no that is not her Viking! Goodness I miss her so much but she is very happy there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That's all for this week, our garden is strewn with twigs and even a few branches from the huge gales here, I am amazed that some of our trees are still standing, but the sun is shining and I must go out with a rake. It is cold in the evenings now and we are lighting the log burner although I am still wildly hoping for an Indian summer. It's not quite time for woolly tights yet!</span></div>
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Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-51153960411352534372018-09-09T06:01:00.000-07:002018-09-09T06:01:24.727-07:00Returning to quilt making<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Without realising what was happening, I seem to have taken the summer off from the sewing room. Commissions for quilts have been completed, then no more appeared so I sat in the garden, well actually I did quite a lot of gardening too. I read books and took a watercolour painting course. We decorated two rooms in the house and visited people we hadn't seen for ages. We went to a wedding and also sat at the bedside of a dying friend and wept. It has been a strange time and one for many considerations and the counting of blessings. Then Google sent me a message to ask if I still wanted to carry on with the blog and it made me realise how long it has been since I wrote a new post or made a new quilt. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So here I am again and here is my first quilt of the autumn. It has been made for our own personal small petrol head who hero worships Lightning Mcqueen from the Disney films....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I quilted it in a straight grid 2.5 inches wide. There are a few wobbles, it is ages since I used the walking foot and guide and I need to practice! Looking at this photo makes me think it needs more lines of quilting as it looks a bit saggy. The backing fabric is a upcycled duvet cover with his favourite character in larger than life and full colour:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At the top of the quilt I have added a vintage fabric badge I found in my sewing box, I can't remember where it can from but it was just the right thing. I stitched it on with machine double blanket stitch which helped to cover up a few marks on the edges.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The edges are bound with a plain navy fabric. I know the quilt will be on his bed within minutes of him seeing it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This winter I want to make more quilts from fabrics in the sewing room. Some will be for a charity like Project Linus UK which donates quilts to children in need of an extra cuddle. Others will be for sale on the website initially and I am thinking of opening an Etsy shop too. If you have experience of this please leave a comment, I would love to hear from you. Has it worked for you? Please let me know.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today I am linking with <a href="http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">Amanda Jean at Crazy Mom Quilts</span></a>, I'm so glad she is back after the summer holiday. Thank you for reading this, I hope you are still visiting me even after such a long break,</span><br />
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Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-29869394637427883442018-06-03T04:48:00.001-07:002018-06-03T04:48:03.272-07:00A Memory Quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can't believe my last post was in March. The weeks have slipped by and I had very good intentions which never quite made it to the computing stage. Really it has been nice to have a break, but I hope you are all still there! I have made quilts though, and this is Gemma's memory quilt made from her little son's outgrown clothes. It has been a joy to make, handling soft baby clothes is so nice, little designs, logos and buttons and the 'I remember' feeling when seeing similar navy and white dungarees to those worn by my youngest who refused a dress until sixteen years old! Here it is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is a single bed size with pockets, buttons, a fluffy dog, straps, rabbit ears and two appliqued stars from a baby hat fabric.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A tip for adding tiny pockets.... if the fabric the pocket is sewn to on the garment is too small a size for the quilt block, cut the right size from the back of the garment and applique the pocket piece onto it before completing the block. You can just see one I have done in the left bottom corner above with a machine blanket stitch and in the centre of the photo below. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I do get asked if I use a stablizer for stretch fabrics and I don't as it would be so fiddlely and expensive. I find that using a simple design for the blocks works best so there is no difficult piecing. I cut all the seams off the clothing and iron everything with steam before cutting the pieces with a rotary cutter. I handle them very carefully and use a walking foot to the stitch pieces together with pins horizontal to the seams. I press seams flat with steam and baking parchment, be careful of polester threads and rubbery pictures on clothes too. Yes, seams can be a wonky sometimes but this doesn't seem to spoilt the cuddle comfort levels of the quilts.These are not the flatest quilts but they are very loved! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This month I have sadly decided to stand down as a Project Linus UK </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">co-</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ordinator. I am doing more to help our family, the garden needs attention and I need a quieter life. I have loved volunteering for Project Linus UK and have met many amazing people. In 11 years I have given 63 talks and raised hundreds of pounds to buy fabric for the quilts. We have given out 3325 quilts to children in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire and I am very proud of that achievement. Now it is time for some new ideas and I so hope that someone will step forward and enjoy being a co-ordinator for Lincolnshire as I have so much. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And I will have time to make some Project Linus UK quilts myself, so here is the one I have made for Dylan, a very brave little boy........</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here is the back:</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am just catching the last link up this spring, run by <a href="http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Amanda Jean at Crazy Mom Quilts</span></a>. I am so grateful to her for running this, it shapes the quilting week for me and I am sure many of you too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Happy quilting and summer is nearly here I hope, thanks for visiting,</span></div>
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Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-90041649152175323482018-03-23T10:44:00.000-07:002018-03-23T10:44:56.675-07:00Sailing By Quilt<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While it has been so cold and snowy there has been far too much attention to the crossword here. Lots of coffee drunk, thrillers read, the Sudoko completed (with difficulty most days) and even more faffing about. I have baked with and watched dvds with our little ones and generally there has not been much sewing I have to confess.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But now the snow has gone and the garden is beginning to look spring pretty. I am more inspired to sew and have been finishing quilts. Here is my Sailing By quilt. It is a first bed size, and the designs of the boats were drawn by husband in case I didn't get the sails right!</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The boats are appliqued on to quilter's calico which is so soft. The nine patch blocks have centres with star constellations on them for the boats to steer by... </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There is the odd seagull, the moon and the sun, but I haven't added too much detail as I wanted the quilt to look uncluttered....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The backing is my usual fabric in mid blue with white polka dots....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The binding is cream with blue squiggles and is designed by Janet Clare. The fish on the red squares remind me of sardines in a tin! I have quilted a net of diagonal lines over them so the fishermen on the boats get a good catch! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The quilt is for sale on the </span><a href="http://www.greenstarquilts.com/page4.htm" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Buy Now </a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">page of the website if you fancy becoming the new owner of lots of fish and four old fashioned boats. It would make a lovely sofa throw as well as a small bed quilt. It could even be used on a boat....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />It has been great to finish projects from the sewing room and use fabric I have been hoarding and stroking for a while..... We all do have that you know....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Next week I am back to making commissions and a happy memories quilt. I hope the snow is disappearing where you are, the daffodils beginning to show, and your spirits are lifting too,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PS. I am linking up with <a href="https://crazymomquilts.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/a-little-bit-vintage.html?m=1">Amanda Jean at Crazy Mom Quilts</a> for Finish up Fridays</span><br /><div>
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Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-20920453507906894852018-03-10T10:51:00.000-08:002018-03-12T09:21:12.526-07:00A Peter Rabbit and Friends Quilt<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I had an enormous panic today when the picture editing programme stopped working. Nothing would resize, cropping wouldn't respond and even though the mouse clicked, the new edits stubbornly refused to load. I am not calm when things change or or go wrong with computing. I know this is because my skills look good but are really very superficial indeed! There are so many things I don't understand and boxes I daren't click as I have no idea what they do or even mean! Metatags anyone?? But I feel a sense of major triumph now because I remembered that our keyboard is wire free and therefore Must Have A Battery!!! So after fiddling around with a tiny triangular cover thing at the side of it and making sure that I kept the batteries I got out of a very small hole in the correct order, I have put in new ones and Bingo!!! Now the editing programme is responding to my full powered keyboard and I am in celebration mode!! Time for a glass of wine and two slices of ginger cake.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So here are the fully edited photos of my quilt which features Peter Rabbit and friends.....</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beatrix Potter story quilt by Green Star Quilts</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I loved these stories when I was little and now I read them to our little ones too. I have had these character pictures for a while, but wasn't sure what to do with them. I decided to add log cabin blocks to them and then my usual corner stars. The colours are soft pinks, blues and creams in checks, dots or flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The backing fabric is white with Peter Rabbit and tiny flowers....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The binding is pale blue with little raddishes from Mr MacGreggor's garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The quilting is in straight lines in the ditch and through the middle of some of the bigger logs....</span></div>
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The quilt is a cot size and is for sale on the <a href="http://www.greenstarquilts.com/page4.htm">Buy Now page</a> of the <a href="http://www.greenstarquilts.com/">website</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am so pleased with this cot quilt, the colours are so soft and spring like. The weather is inproving although still very wet. I have hung up my spring wall quilt to encourage myself and we have crocus out in the garden in the last few days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I hope your computer keyboard behaves itself this week, when in doubt check your batteries and I hope you have a lovely week sewing,</span></div>
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Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-70843148847959161092018-02-01T12:34:00.000-08:002018-02-01T12:34:07.200-08:00Free Range Happy Hens Quilt<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week I have finished the hens, eggs and feathers quilt. I love this fabric range from Makower and have been thinking about a name for the quilt as I have been making it. It has been a calm quilt to make, relaxing and such soft colours. I don't often get time to make quilts which are not commissioned, but January has been a quiet month at Green Star Quilts and really I am grateful for that. So here is my Free Range Happy Hens quilt..... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am delighted that it has given me a chance to dust off Cyril the Cockerel who lives on the top of the dresser in the dining room too..... he was given to me by my sister in law Helen and is a great treasure.... I love to hand him to the children saying he is very heavy, he looks like a stone statue, but he is light as a feather and made of paper mache!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love the way the hens flounce across the quilt, with little Bantums in the blue and taupe squares too, all milling about.... free range eggs in all sizes and colours and feather floating about the paler squares....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The backing fabric is a lovely soft red with tiny flowers woven in to it and the wadding is 100% cotton which gives a super drape. I have washed the wadding before I used it </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">so it would not shrink too.</span><div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Free Range Happy Hens Quilt by Green Star Quilts</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This quilt is the size for a generous sofa throw and would look very much at home in a country kitchen. The binding is a chicken wire print, to go around the field..... There was not quite enough fabric to complete the binding and I was so sad not to use such a perfect print, but then I remembered that the chicken field at home always had holes in the fence so I added another fabric to create a gap on each side, so the hens can get out to look for better worms! The quilt is for sale on the <a href="http://www.greenstarquilts.com/page4.htm">Buy Now</a> page of the website.</span></div>
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My Hyacinth bulbs have gone into overdrive this week! They suddenly grew enormous and flopped over the bowl despite me trying to prop them up with twigs from the garden. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Can you see Cyril on top of the dresser? What have I done wrong with the bulbs?? Other people seem to grow Hyacinths which stay very disciplined and grow straight and neat with no flopping! I must confess that I forgot to plant them in December and these are bought from the market and then potted up into the bowl so I can pretend to be a super organised person who never forgets to plant ahead for flowers after Christmas. Oh I do wish I was that person! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I walked round the garden on the one sunny day last week and found to my delight that the Witch Hazel tree was in flower though. It is still a very small tree, even after several years but the flowers are so welcome in such cold weather....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hope you had had a good week, did you see the super moon which was wonderful here but not red ? This week I am making another charity quilt and it is not going well..... I'll show you next time to see what you think!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thanks for visiting, do come again,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today it is snowing in Lincolnshire, soft and wet stuff that does not settle but will make the roads freeze and dangerous tonight. It is a day to stay inside and eat cake. Hibernation seems a good idea and it was hard to get up this morning from a warm bed. So I want to tell you about this lovely book, a just right book for a day like today.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I will just say that I am not under the quilt, the bed is made and I am dressed in many layers and jumpers, woolly tights and a big scarf...... Emma's book is all about the way we feel in winter and how to comfort and encourage ourselves to get outside and make the most of all things wintery.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is a beautiful book, with lovely photos, so carefully composed. There are things to make, recipes to try, and lots of good advice, a book to dip into when eating that cake and drinking hot coffee and a book which opens your eyes and makes you look around on a winter walk or in your garden. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I bought it from my local book shop and <a href="https://silverpebble.net/blog"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Emma also has a blog</span> </a>with beautiful photos too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The next thing to tell you is about is my chicken quilt. I am making this from fabrics I have been saving in a box specially and at last I have time to start it. Here is the top so far, up on the design wall, a grand name for a flannel sheet on the wall!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love the way the chickens flounce across the quilt, this way and that....</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The egg, stripes and red fabrics are part of the same collection by Makower....</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is a very simple pattern but the random placing of the small squares gives the scrappy look I love. I hope to quilt it next week and then it will be for sale on my website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last of all is my Project Linus UK quilt for January. <a href="http://thecolorfulfabriholic.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Jan</span></a> and I are trying to make one each month this year to donate to children in need of an extra cuddle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made the colour blocks from scrapes left over from another quilt and just made them into random log cabin style squares...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now we are going to bundle off in the car for Sunday lunch with our little ones and their parents. I have the chocolate cake ready to take too.... This is apparently a 'Random Act of Kindness' my little grand daughter informs me, as taught at Sunday school. Last week she brought me her last two chocolate pennies from her stocking as a 'R.A.K' but was rather surprised that we ate them without sharing! Life can be so hard to understand when you are little!!</span></div>
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Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-27646567964390328672018-01-13T13:57:00.000-08:002018-01-13T13:57:27.105-08:00Fairies, Flowers and Butterflies Quilt for 2018<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am so late in wishing everyone a Happy New year. I hope I can still do so, I blame the horrid flu which struck me down just after Christmas and still lingered on with an incredible tiredness thing for many days. Now I am back in the sewing room, still with the need for the occasional afternoon snooze, but basically feeling a lot better. Note to self: have the flu jab earlier next winter!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Enough moaning, along with coughing and general snuffling.... here is the first quilt for 2018. It is a single bed size and the theme is Fairies, Flowers and Butterflies, and it is such a pretty quilt! The colours have been chosen by the new owner Elen who will be seven years old next week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I started drawing my design with my usual big stars in each corner, then divided up the other blocks so each 6.5 or 12 inch square has it's own character.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I use lots of different fabrics and lay the blocks out on the floor if it is a big quilt or on the design wall ( that's an flannel sheet hung up) if it is a smaller quilt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is so exciting as the quilt blocks are made and I can see how it is all working out...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The flower fairy fabric is by Malco</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">m</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Miller from the original drawing by Cecelie Mary Barker. This fabric is so pretty and has gold glitter too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Next I am going to make my first Project Linus quilt for 2018. I am attempting to make one each month, partly as a scrap buster, my scraps are way out of control, but mostly because these quilts bring a tiny bit of joy to a family who have a poorly child and are so worried about the future. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My other resolution is to blog regularly. Things have slipped, good intentions wobbled and a good friend even asked if I had given up writing. That's a shame as I really enjoy writing the blog and reading the words from you too. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I wish you all joy in 2018 and some very happy quilting,</span><br />
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Sue @ Quilting the Green Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06951680161599214077noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100427786444649534.post-25767854618075594732017-12-08T09:54:00.000-08:002017-12-08T09:54:17.815-08:00A wedding memory quilt finish<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dear Readers,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My good intentions to show the finished quilt quickly slipped away due to a sprained ankle acquired on slippery leaves in the garden. Sewing became a bit difficult ( sleeping, reading and resting was much easier) so the quilt finish took longer. I never realised how painful a sprained ankle could be and how scary it is to be suddenly unable to walk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> But in the end the binding was added, the names free stitch embroidered and the parcel posted...I was really pleased with the final result inspite of the fabrics being tricky to use and fraying dreadfully. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here is the quilt finished. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Can you see the names and the wedding date stitched across the border?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The colours very much remind me of my brave dahlias, still flowering into November, but not for much longer I fear before the frosts catch them....</span><div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love the backing which has tiny orange circles like little wedding rings on it, it's quite a loose weave cotton and very soft.... </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I free machined the blocks which worked well and straight stitched the calico borders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Aurelia is such a gorgeous name! I practised my handwriting style stitching several times before attempting it on the quilt....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This quilt is off to Kenya next year with it's new owners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I'm still hopping a bit but today I managed my first long walk on the common opposite our house and I am really pleased. Today has been a crisp,frosty, blue sky kind of day and so beautiful and it was such a relief to get out at last. I love setting out in woolly hat, scarf, gloves, padded jacket which feeels like wearing a duvet.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And look, I found a woven fence to compliment my woven quilt pattern!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So now we have the days before Christmas, so busy for everyone and lots of expectation that it will all be perfect on the day. I am just dusting off my mince pie tins and trying to remember how to make pastry....</span></div>
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